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Scaling Description of Dynamical Heterogeneity and Avalanches of Relaxation in Glass-Forming Liquids

We provide a theoretical description of dynamical heterogeneities in glass-forming liquids, based on the premise that relaxation occurs via local rearrangements coupled by elasticity. In our framework, the growth of the dynamical correlation length e and o ...

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Design of a compliant load cell with adjustable stiffness

Charles Baur, Lennart Rubbert, Michal Stanislaw Smreczak

Manipulation at the sub-micron scale often requires force-sensing capabilities of milli-to nanonewton forces. This article presents a novel design of a compliant load cell with mechanically adjustable stiffness. The system enables adapting force sensitivit ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC2021

Local Vulnerabilities and Global Robustness of Coupled Dynamical Systems on Complex Networks

Melvyn Sandy Tyloo

Coupled dynamical systems are omnipresent in everyday life. In general, interactions between individual elements composing the system are captured by complex networks. The latter greatly impact the way coupled systems are functioning and evolving in time. ...

EPFL2020

Noise-induced desynchronization and stochastic escape from equilibrium in complex networks

Robin Delabays

Complex physical systems are unavoidably subjected to external environments not accounted for in the set of differential equations that models them. The resulting perturbations are standardly represented by noise terms. If these terms are large enough, the ...

2019

Genuinely Ferroelectric Sub-1-Volt-Switchable Nanodomains in HfxZr(1-x)O2 Ultrathin Capacitors

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Igor Stolichnov, Enrico Colla, Matteo Cavalieri

The new class of fully silicon-compatible hafnia-based ferroelectrics with high switchable polarization and good endurance and thickness scalability shows a strong promise for new generations of logic and memory devices. Among other factors, their competit ...

2018

Implementation and Characterization of Dynamic Genetic Networks in Vitro

Henrike Marie Niederholtmeyer

Transcription and translation (TX-TL) can be performed in vitro, outside of cells, allowing the assembly and analysis of genetic networks. This approach to engineering biological networks in a less complex and more controllable environment could one day al ...

EPFL2015

Nonlinear relaxation and selective polychromatic lasing of confined polaritons

Benoît Marie Joseph Deveaud, Gabriele Grosso, François Morier-Genoud, Marcia Portella Oberli, Stéphane Trebaol

Polaritons have often been proposed as promising candidates for the realization of all-optical devices due to the easy manipulation and control of their density and spin. In this paper we present a relaxation mechanism for confined polaritons and its appli ...

Amer Physical Soc2014

Optical Bistable Switching With Kerr Nonlinear Materials Exhibiting a Finite Response Time in Two-Dimensional Photonic Crystals

Ali Naqavi, Sina Khorasani

Effect of relaxation time on the performance of photonic crystal optical bistable switches based on Kerr nolinearity is discussed. This paper deals with optical pulses with the duration of about 50 ps. In such cases the steady state response of the optical ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering, Po Box 10, Bellingham, Wa 98227-0010 Usa2010

Energy relaxation in one-dimensional polariton condensates

Vincenzo Savona, Timothy Chi Hin Liew

We study the kinetics of polariton condensation accounting for the condensation process as well as the energy relaxation of condensed polaritons due to their scattering with phonons and excitons. By assuming a Boltzmann kinetic description of the scatterin ...

2010

Bistability and oscillations of the NO/CO reaction on a Pt-Mo supported catalyst

Albert Renken

The reaction of NO with CO on a catalyst of 0.5% Pt-3.4% MoO3 supported on a-Al2O3 was studied in different reactors at atm. pressure. A fixed-bed reactor with external recycle loop exhibited bistability and hysteresis as CO concn. or temp. were varied. In ...

1997

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